Improvement in postal-card files



A. WIEL. Postal-Card Pile.

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UNITED STATESQPATENT OFFICE.

ASHER WIEL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN POSTAL-CARD FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,077, dated March 5,1878; application filed November 1, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ASHER WIEL, of the city of Baltimore and State ofMaryland, have invented a certain Improved Device for Separating PostalCards, 850., into classified packages for filing, of which the followingis a specification and I do hereby declare that in the same is containeda full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

This invention relates to a device to be used to hold or retain inseparate or isolated packages postal cards, work-tags, checks, and othersimilar articles requiring classification under initial letters, dates,or private marks, and which furnishes means for clamping or holding thesaid cards, &c., as classified when the same are removed from the deviceto be filed for future reference, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the description of the invention which follows, reference is made tothe accompanyin g drawing, forming a part of this specification, and inwhich Figure I is a side View of the device, showing postal cards in oneof the pockets or division thereof. Fig. II is an end view of theinvention, and Fig. III a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the views.

A is the base of the device, and B B are side plates, attached in anysuitable manner to the said base, and provided at their upper edges withpins a, forked at their extremities, as shown. The forked ends of thepins a are used to support the elastic bands 0, which are stretchedacross the device to form pockets, into which postal cards, &c., areplaced. The

.pockets maybe made of any desired width by including within the bandsany number of the pins to. Different-sized pockets are shown in thedrawings.

The device is provided with indicating marks, numbers, or letters,whereby the postal cards, 8m, may be located under their proper heads inisolated packs 3 and the preferable method of marking the device is bymeans of a removable marked strip, 1), which is slid into a groove inone of the side plates, as shown. in the drawing.

Upon the pockets being filled, or upon the expiration of the periodindicated by marks representing the pockets, the elastic bands areremoved from the pins and allowed .to clasp the. cards, &c., inclosedthereby, after which the packs of cards are removed from the device andfiled.

This invention will be found to be useful in business-houses receivinglarge numbers of postal cards, and in factories where tags or checks areused to classify'certain products which are known by particular heads ornumbers, and in the latter case serves to simplify the usual method ofkeeping memoranda.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A device for the purpose herein specified, consisting of the base A andpins a, connected thereto, in combination with the removable elasticbands 0, substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 29th day ofOctober, A. D. 1877.

ASHER WIEL.

